WPMU is not considered stable yet, although it is in active development. I wouldn't use it for mission-critical projects unless you have the time and skill to put into tweaking it. (James Farmer's edublogs service is a notable example of someone who has invested the time to fine tune things).
By the way, if you want a free wordpress blog without worrying about hosting, check out http://wordpress.com/
I am of the walkman generation and I do deal with a moderate amount of hearing loss at 38 to the point where I have difficulty hearing some people's voices. I don't think the problem was my walkman so much as the 10th row seats right in front of the speakers at an AC/DC concert - my hearing has never been the same since. Great concert, though!
I think this is a great idea! Leo and Patrick ruled on TSS, and since they've gone I cancelled my subscription to G4TechTV. Only one thing is needed to make this complete - bring back Jessica Corbin!!
Flesh of creature A, including malformed protein, is consumed by creature B. (Consumption is apparently part of the mechanism of infection.)
Malformed protein avoids chemical breakdown in digestive system
Malformed protein is absorbed in whole into the bloodstream (proof of this alone would require radical rethinking of our understanding of digestion)
Malformed protein manages to get past blood-brain barrier
Malformed protein in brain causes other proteins to become malformed, causing neural disorder. This is what the experiment showed was happening, so they have shown that once there are malformed proteins in the brain, they can be the mechanism for progression of the disease.
... uh, profit? Nope, I guess that doesn't work here.
All they've really shown is that the presence of malformed proteins can provide a mechanism for the disease, but not how they get there in the first place. Until someone threatens to inject cow brain extract into my head, I'm not worried. And until a mechanism for transmission is shown, I still think that prions are bunk!!
Most patrons are barely capable of using existing public-access terminals let alone a multi-tabbed browser.
By the same reasoning, most people have no need for the mathematics they learn in high school, therefore it should be removed from the curriculum? I don't think so.
I'm sure many of the patrons are skilled computer users - they just might not have an internet connection anywhere else. There might even be a few/.ers who can only connect through public access terminals.
I knew a girl who had a 97% average in calculus, but would act stupid and go "tee hee i dont know" when she needed to figure out the 10% tip for a dinner bill. Stupid is supposed to be sexy, or something.
My wife went through the same thing in high school, and from her perspective it came down to the fact that people are generally intimidated by and loathe people who are demostrably smarter (or faster, or better paid, etc.) than themselves. This is doubly applicable for girls in high school - most guys will avoid girls who are smarter than they are (which is a shame considering that you can get your homework done and a blowjob from a smart girlfriend), and the girls will hate you "for acting like you're better than they are".
It's just one of the oddest cultural phenomenons out there. No wonder America is slipping in science and tech, when it's cool to be a "dummy" but terribly uncool to be smart.
Considering the economic importance in most parts of the world of knowledge based professionals, this is especially curious.
But if someone learns to make web pages with HTML, they learn a certain level of abstraction that is fundamentally necessary for any basic sort of programming. I teach computer science in a high school, and we start with HTML for this very reason. By the time they can write img tags and link tags, students have started internalizing the idea that these funny written symbols can produce something more concrete.
BTW, I recomment Logo for the very same reason - IIRC, it was designed to present abstract concepts in a concrete, visual-kinesthetic way. In the past I have started a class with turtle graphics and progressed to having them write a simple 8 bit binary adder by writing functions for various logic gates and combining them.
As far as the individual blogger is concerned, the lesson is this: use a tool that will allow you to migrate your data.
I'm glad you raise that as a point. Mark Pilgrim has talked about freedom 0 being the freedom to run the program for any purpose (OK - technically this comes from the Free Software Foundation, but Mark is the one being quoted on this). But there is an often overlooked right in all the discussion about Free vs. Proprietary software, and that is the right to access my data. I like MT precisely because I can access my data quite easily through their export mechanism (which I think may be MT's greatest feature). Anything that produces output which can be viewed in a text editor is a useful tool because I can find a way to translate my data so it can be used by another program.
I support Free Software, but I am not dogmatically tied to it at the expense of giving up my right to access my data. And before it gets mentioned in reply to this, I don't think that Free Software (having access to source code specifically) guarantees everyone's right to access their data, since not everyone is going to be able to understand the source code or be able to use the talent of someone who does.
In addition to Free Software, we need data standards to make it useful for all possible users. Maybe we need someone proficient in XML to create a blogML? Oh wait - Dave Winer did that with RSS, but he was perceived (fairly or unfairly? - who can tell anymore, but its no longer relevant) as being too rigid in his guardianship of the standard.
No wonder Monsanto sued. They're pi^h^h upset that he didn't buy the matching 55-gallon drums of Roundup. They couldn't have cared less if the guy used the patented seed -- they'd probably give it away for free if they could force the recipients to use their also-patented herbicide.
Careful - Monsanto might sue you for revealing their marketing plan without proper authority! But seriously, Gillette figured this out years ago - they money's in selling the razor blades, not the razors.
"Imagine watching a movie with someone and you get thirsty. It is an inconvenience to everyone watching the movie to stop the movie, but at the same time you don't want to miss anything important. Koolio could solve your problem."
Right. So instead of taking 30 seconds to get to the fridge and back, I'll pull out my laptop, login to the robot control server, place my order, then wait for the bot to get my drink to me; at best this takes 2 minutes
Its a cool idea, I'll admit, but maybe not the most practical. Especially since when I launch my browser to login to the robot server, my home page is/. and it takes me 20 minutes to read and comment on new stories. Now, where was that work I actually meant to be doing right now...
Open Source Educational Foundation and Tux4Kids have put together Knoppix bootable CD for kids. I showed it to my daughter a while ago, and even though playing on the computer isn't really her favourite thing to do (she'd rather ride her bike and look at books - what's with the kids today?), she did enjoy some of the games. TuxPaint in particular was a big hit.
If you really want to prevent your kids from accidentally causing problems on your system, this could be a nice alternative. Heck, burn a few copies of the CDs and put them in the kiddies' lunchboxes as they head off to school; I'm sure the schools would love to have kids booting a different OS on the computers in the school computer lab!
Use the hamster to power the fans in your case. The best part is that the mod will become more efficient over time as the hamster learns that it can make its "house" cooler by running in the wheel!
Ironically enough, we sent her down to the U.S. long ago. She's now performing nightly in Las Vegas, I believe.
And we have free universal health care.
No Celine, free health care, legal p2p - what's not to love about this country?
No - for the love of Kibo, people, lets not worry about naming. Let's start building infrastructure that will make use of it. If it proves useful, people will use it. And yes, most people talk about web pages (or internet pages, or the interweb or whatever), but the important point is that an infrastructure was built to the point where it became useful to people outside the technology field. SNMP, FTP, and DNS may not be the most pithily named standards, but they allow developers to build the infrastructure we need. If end users want to call it biff, let them go ahead.
(My apologies to Alan Levine if his site gets/.ed)
And (donning asbestos underwear) let's stop multiplying standards for no apparent reason other than personality conflicts with the originator of a standard.
OK - just went over this with my Biology 20 class the other day (IAAST - I *am* a science teacher)
law
a statement based on observation that states what is generally observed. Example, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
theory
an explanation for what is observed; theories are testable through the scientific method
So, one of the key features of a theory is that it could be wrong, since its just a guess at explaining observations.
I teach the CCNA course in a high school and just had some info about this program come across my desk - it looks pretty good (I'm trying to figure out a way to get my school to give me 4 years off with pay so I could go do it myself)
If adults have open-sores from harvesting pr0n, then I think they need medical (or possibly psychological) attention, not software. At least buy yourself some lotion, buddy!
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WPMU is not considered stable yet, although it is in active development. I wouldn't use it for mission-critical projects unless you have the time and skill to put into tweaking it. (James Farmer's edublogs service is a notable example of someone who has invested the time to fine tune things). By the way, if you want a free wordpress blog without worrying about hosting, check out http://wordpress.com/
And I, for one, welcome - yada yada yada.
hell, the current version (Tiger) has a lot of the features Vista is supposed to have already.
You mean that the current version has a lot of the features that are going to be dropped before Vista is actually released.
I am of the walkman generation and I do deal with a moderate amount of hearing loss at 38 to the point where I have difficulty hearing some people's voices. I don't think the problem was my walkman so much as the 10th row seats right in front of the speakers at an AC/DC concert - my hearing has never been the same since. Great concert, though!
Privacy be damned, as long as it's not abused, I welcome it.
And I, for one, welcome our keystroke logging overlords!
And I left the light on in the kitchen. Thanks to technology, I'll never have to wonder again!
Dude - you're thinking of MacCauley Culkin and Michael Jackson.
I think this is a great idea! Leo and Patrick ruled on TSS, and since they've gone I cancelled my subscription to G4TechTV. Only one thing is needed to make this complete - bring back Jessica Corbin!!
>Something short and perhaps cowboy-based?
Neil?
- Flesh of creature A, including malformed protein, is consumed by creature B. (Consumption is apparently part of the mechanism of infection.)
- Malformed protein avoids chemical breakdown in digestive system
- Malformed protein is absorbed in whole into the bloodstream (proof of this alone would require radical rethinking of our understanding of digestion)
- Malformed protein manages to get past blood-brain barrier
- Malformed protein in brain causes other proteins to become malformed, causing neural disorder. This is what the experiment showed was happening, so they have shown that once there are malformed proteins in the brain, they can be the mechanism for progression of the disease.
- ... uh, profit? Nope, I guess that doesn't work here.
All they've really shown is that the presence of malformed proteins can provide a mechanism for the disease, but not how they get there in the first place. Until someone threatens to inject cow brain extract into my head, I'm not worried. And until a mechanism for transmission is shown, I still think that prions are bunk!!That isn't a bug - its a feature!
Most patrons are barely capable of using existing public-access terminals let alone a multi-tabbed browser.
By the same reasoning, most people have no need for the mathematics they learn in high school, therefore it should be removed from the curriculum? I don't think so.
I'm sure many of the patrons are skilled computer users - they just might not have an internet connection anywhere else. There might even be a few /.ers who can only connect through public access terminals.
I knew a girl who had a 97% average in calculus, but would act stupid and go "tee hee i dont know" when she needed to figure out the 10% tip for a dinner bill. Stupid is supposed to be sexy, or something.
My wife went through the same thing in high school, and from her perspective it came down to the fact that people are generally intimidated by and loathe people who are demostrably smarter (or faster, or better paid, etc.) than themselves. This is doubly applicable for girls in high school - most guys will avoid girls who are smarter than they are (which is a shame considering that you can get your homework done and a blowjob from a smart girlfriend), and the girls will hate you "for acting like you're better than they are".
It's just one of the oddest cultural phenomenons out there. No wonder America is slipping in science and tech, when it's cool to be a "dummy" but terribly uncool to be smart.
Considering the economic importance in most parts of the world of knowledge based professionals, this is especially curious.
But if someone learns to make web pages with HTML, they learn a certain level of abstraction that is fundamentally necessary for any basic sort of programming. I teach computer science in a high school, and we start with HTML for this very reason. By the time they can write img tags and link tags, students have started internalizing the idea that these funny written symbols can produce something more concrete.
BTW, I recomment Logo for the very same reason - IIRC, it was designed to present abstract concepts in a concrete, visual-kinesthetic way. In the past I have started a class with turtle graphics and progressed to having them write a simple 8 bit binary adder by writing functions for various logic gates and combining them.
I'm glad you raise that as a point. Mark Pilgrim has talked about freedom 0 being the freedom to run the program for any purpose (OK - technically this comes from the Free Software Foundation, but Mark is the one being quoted on this). But there is an often overlooked right in all the discussion about Free vs. Proprietary software, and that is the right to access my data. I like MT precisely because I can access my data quite easily through their export mechanism (which I think may be MT's greatest feature). Anything that produces output which can be viewed in a text editor is a useful tool because I can find a way to translate my data so it can be used by another program.
I support Free Software, but I am not dogmatically tied to it at the expense of giving up my right to access my data. And before it gets mentioned in reply to this, I don't think that Free Software (having access to source code specifically) guarantees everyone's right to access their data, since not everyone is going to be able to understand the source code or be able to use the talent of someone who does.
In addition to Free Software, we need data standards to make it useful for all possible users. Maybe we need someone proficient in XML to create a blogML? Oh wait - Dave Winer did that with RSS, but he was perceived (fairly or unfairly? - who can tell anymore, but its no longer relevant) as being too rigid in his guardianship of the standard.
No wonder Monsanto sued. They're pi^h^h upset that he didn't buy the matching 55-gallon drums of Roundup. They couldn't have cared less if the guy used the patented seed -- they'd probably give it away for free if they could force the recipients to use their also-patented herbicide.
Careful - Monsanto might sue you for revealing their marketing plan without proper authority! But seriously, Gillette figured this out years ago - they money's in selling the razor blades, not the razors.
From the description:
Right. So instead of taking 30 seconds to get to the fridge and back, I'll pull out my laptop, login to the robot control server, place my order, then wait for the bot to get my drink to me; at best this takes 2 minutes
Its a cool idea, I'll admit, but maybe not the most practical. Especially since when I launch my browser to login to the robot server, my home page is /. and it takes me 20 minutes to read and comment on new stories. Now, where was that work I actually meant to be doing right now...
Open Source Educational Foundation and Tux4Kids have put together Knoppix bootable CD for kids. I showed it to my daughter a while ago, and even though playing on the computer isn't really her favourite thing to do (she'd rather ride her bike and look at books - what's with the kids today?), she did enjoy some of the games. TuxPaint in particular was a big hit.
If you really want to prevent your kids from accidentally causing problems on your system, this could be a nice alternative. Heck, burn a few copies of the CDs and put them in the kiddies' lunchboxes as they head off to school; I'm sure the schools would love to have kids booting a different OS on the computers in the school computer lab!
Use the hamster to power the fans in your case. The best part is that the mod will become more efficient over time as the hamster learns that it can make its "house" cooler by running in the wheel!
Ironically enough, we sent her down to the U.S. long ago. She's now performing nightly in Las Vegas, I believe. And we have free universal health care. No Celine, free health care, legal p2p - what's not to love about this country?
No - for the love of Kibo, people, lets not worry about naming. Let's start building infrastructure that will make use of it. If it proves useful, people will use it. And yes, most people talk about web pages (or internet pages, or the interweb or whatever), but the important point is that an infrastructure was built to the point where it became useful to people outside the technology field. SNMP, FTP, and DNS may not be the most pithily named standards, but they allow developers to build the infrastructure we need. If end users want to call it biff, let them go ahead.
(My apologies to Alan Levine if his site gets /.ed)
And (donning asbestos underwear) let's stop multiplying standards for no apparent reason other than personality conflicts with the originator of a standard.
OK - just went over this with my Biology 20 class the other day (IAAST - I *am* a science teacher)
law a statement based on observation that states what is generally observed. Example, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west theory an explanation for what is observed; theories are testable through the scientific methodSo, one of the key features of a theory is that it could be wrong, since its just a guess at explaining observations.
From the news release: Heavy Internet use may be therapeutic for those people facing social isolation and loneliness
I don't think I've ever read a more succinct description of /.ers!
I teach the CCNA course in a high school and just had some info about this program come across my desk - it looks pretty good (I'm trying to figure out a way to get my school to give me 4 years off with pay so I could go do it myself)
Carleton University Bachelor of Information Technology - Network Specialization
> I wish there was more adult open-sores software
If adults have open-sores from harvesting pr0n, then I think they need medical (or possibly psychological) attention, not software. At least buy yourself some lotion, buddy!